-=> Lee Lofaso wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    DD>Same deal on term limits for elected officials. Many of them seem   
    DD>to think that holding elected office is a lifetime sinecure. Which   
    DD>certainly is *NOT* what the framers of the Constitution envisioned.   
      
    LL> The Framers of the Constitution made absolutely no mention of term   
    LL> limits for any office.  It was not until the 22nd Amendment that term   
    LL> limits were placed on the Presidency, now set at two consecutive terms.   
    LL> And even that amendment does not specifically state that any President   
    LL> is limited to serving two terms.  IOW, a President must leave office   
    LL> after having served two consecutive terms, but could serve another   
    LL> first term and subsequent second term.  Kind of like what the former   
    LL> President of Russia is intending to do in his country.   
      
   Yeah, it does. Specifically says two terms - and if the person has filled more   
   than two years of an unexpired term (due to death, resignation, impeachment,   
   etc of the sitting President) then s/he may be elected only once as President.   
   The exceptions, called out in the amendment are that the sitting President   
   when the amendment began its journey through the process would be exempt as   
   would the sitting President when ratification was complete and the amendment   
   took effect. That was made moot by Give 'em Hell Harry going back to Missouri   
   to cut the grass after handing over to Ike.   
       
    LL> Are term limits a good idea?  In my opinion, term limits are a horrible   
    LL> idea.  Want proof?  Had Bill Clinton been able to run for a third   
    LL> consecutive term, this country would have been saved from the tyranny   
    LL> and ineptitude of George W. Bush.  Of course, this country might have   
    LL> had to endure another sex scandal.  But hey.  We're used to that...   
      
   It's only scandalous because the religious right and the press make it so.   
   It's really only stress relief and friendly friction. I have told the story   
   elsewhere of the time when there were a bunch of farmer types in their John   
   Deere caps hanging out in the showroom of the satellite dealership I managed.   
   They were ripping old Slick Willy up one side and down the other for dipping   
   his wick off the reservation. (This was probably about Gennifer Flowers - well   
   before Monica became the "head" intern) when a nice little old lady who could   
   have been the model for the Granny in the Tweety and Sylvester cartoons came   
   in to pay her programming bill. Even wearing a "wash dress" and a feed-sack   
   apron. She listened to Farmer Fred and Farmer Bill and Farmer John doing a   
   round-robin discussion of Clinton's infidelities for a bit and turned to the   
   trio and remarked ... "Of course he hunts outside the house. Did you ever take   
   a close look at the total bitch he's married to?" You could have heard a pin   
   drop.  Bv)=   
       
    DD>.. Democrats are sexy: who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant???   
      
    LL> Republicans claim that Bill Clinton chases skirts.  But they have it   
    LL> all wrong.  It is the ladies who chase Bill...   
      
   And Jimmy cracks corn and nobody cares. But, they wrote a song about it.   
      
   What gets me is the piling on they gave Hermann Cain for patting the office   
   help on the po-po and give Newt a pass for serial adultery and much worse.   
      
   ... GOP 2012: Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job.   
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